The woman who created the American-style Hebrew school demonstrated that one could be fully Jewish and fully American.

Laura Thor spoke these words at Transgender Day of Remembrance last year, at a service held at Jefferson Unitarian Church, ...

Alicia Jo Rabins is the frontswoman of Girls in Trouble. Their self-titled album was just released on JDub Records, and ...

Several Greek versions of the Purim story survive, along with the biblical text we read today.

At shiva, the mourner gets to decide whether or not to initiate conversation.

He could kill a lion or topple a temple with his bare hands, but succumbed to the love of a treacherous woman. Many wild traditions circulated about the first Jewish superhero.

Not everyone admired Singer's fiction.

Miriam and Aaron's criticism of Moses, and Miriam's punishment of leprosy teach lessons of sibling and communal responsibility.

A Torah teaching for the Western environmentalist.

1970s & '80s stand-up & sketch comedy: Seinfeld's start, Andy Kaufman, Saturday Night Live